Working with Curriculum Standards
In creating the activities and games in the enrichment and visitation packets, the staff at Mesa Verde National Park do their best to abide by state and national guidelines. Social studies, math, science, mechanical drawing, technical writing, and artistic techniques have been included and are written to meet the requirements of grades 4 through 7.
Several complex skills have been incorporated in the development of the activities in accordance with the Colorado State Education Guidelines.
1. Students know major sources of water, its uses, importance, and cyclic patterns of movement through the environment.
2. Students know and understand interrelationships among science, technology, and human activity and how they can affect the world.
3. Students recognize and use the visual arts as a form of communication.
4. Students relate the visual arts to history and culture.
5. Students know how to use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
6. Students know the physical and human characteristics of places, and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
7. Students know the physical and human characteristics of places.
8. Students know how culture and experience influence people's perception of places and regions.
9. Students understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflict.
10. Students know the characteristics, location, distribution, and migration of human populations.
11. Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
12. Students apply knowledge of people, places, and environments to understand the past and present to plan for the future.
13. Students will understand the chronological organization of history and know how to organize events and people into major eras to identify and explain historical relationships.
14. Students will use chronology to organize historical events and people.
15. Students will use chronology to examine and explain historical relationships.
16. Students know how to use the processes and resources of historical inquiry.
17. Students understand that societies are diverse and have changed over time.
18. Students develop number sense and use numbers and number relationships in problem solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.
19. Students construct and interpret number meanings through real world experiences and the use of hands on materials.
20. Students use a variety of tools and techniques to measure, apply the results in problem solving situations, and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.
21. Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.
22. Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources.
23. Students understand that because of the condition of scarcity, decisions must be made, influenced by incentives about the use of resources and that these choices involve costs.
24. Students understand how to exercise the rights and responsibilities of participation in civic life.
We at Mesa Verde National Park hope that the materials in the enrichment packet meet the curriculum guidelines and standards for your particular school.
Good luck with your Mesa Verde experience! Please enjoy and help preserve all of your National Parks and Monuments.Please treat your National Parks with respect.
Updated 12/15/06
